PRINCE OF WALES.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIIII, Issue 82, 8 April 1920, Page 4

PRINCE OF WALES.

HIS PLAINNESS IN I>RE^S,

DESCRIBED AS "A DELIGHTFUIi

BOY.

If the Prince dresses when in New Zealand on the same plan as that which he mad€i his rule in' Canada, ho will wear in seaboardi towns the uniform of a captain of the Navy, and ire large inland towns that of a, colonel of Welsh Guards. When presumably; the civilians whose duties bring them! into contact with him on ceremonial occasions prefer to wear tall hats and mqming. dress, sio will do the same,, though he has said "the people can: wear what they like." His Royal Highness himself 1 -is all a boy's horror of "toppers," and in Canada,, in all the sittaller places, he appeared in a suit of grey mufti , and liked, for their own sakes, to see other people do the game. Pro/bably^ also, he wouldi like the speeches which he will be called upon to make and' listen tet !to be as a few and as short as possible—^but of consideration for the! feelings of others as' well as his own. liiittlo talk and lots of exercise would be a programme that would be likely to fit in with "his secret wishes tetter thaa any other. Ho is a delightful boy, without 'an atom oif" "side." He >told the members of the> Press Club in Washington that .one'of the things that;pleased him in coming to the States, was to find "tha.o you are nearly as democratic as we are." He might'weil have said, "as I am." For with all his sense of his great position and responsibilities as heir to the throne of the Commonwealth of British nations, ■he is {democratic to the core.

One of the first things he did on! arriving'in Canada was to convert as many as possible of the garden parties arranged in his honor into public receptions^ to which anyone who; chose to walk in from the street, down to little boys in ragged clothing, were cordially invited. He wanted xo> meet; face to face as many as ho could of the people over whom he will some day bei called! upon to reign, and no* only the gentlemen in top hats. And as "his right hand quickly bore witnesSy lie did.